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CSS Sociology QUESTION #1669
Question 1
In Durkheim's typological analysis of suicide, which type is produced not by insufficient social integration, but by excessive regulation — where individuals feel their futures are blocked and their passions violently constrained by oppressive social norms?
  • Altruistic suicide
  • Egoistic suicide
  • Fatalistic suicide✔️
  • Anomic suicide
Correct Answer Explanation
Fatalistic suicide, briefly mentioned by Durkheim in 'Suicide' (1897) as the opposite of anomic suicide, results from excessive regulation — when social norms and controls are so oppressive that individuals feel they have no future and their passions are violently blocked. This contrasts with anomic suicide (too little regulation) and altruistic suicide (excessive integration).